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Cleveland Museum of Art

6,365 works

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in striped kimono with a sword, standing before cartouches with characters.

Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1780

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned costume holding a bow, with arrows and a drum in the background.

Ichikawa Ebizo III as Yanone Goro in Nenriki arahitogami

Torii Kiyonobu II, 1758

Woman in patterned kimono playing a koto in a room with shoji screens, with a stone lantern and blossoming branch in the gard

Playing the Koyo, A Lady from Nagoya of the Kōka Era (1844-48), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections

Mizuno Toshikata, 1894

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a warrior in a red patterned robe, holding a katana beside a pine tree.

Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Travelling Warrior

Katsukawa Shunkō, late 1780s

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a pole over his shoulders beside a crouching swordsman in a brown robe.

Asao Gakujurō as the Ferryman Sanjūrō from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Shunshosai Hokuchō, 1829

Woman in veil and black hat stands by pine tree and river, with a seated man in straw hat beside wooden barrels.

On the Road, A Lady of the Genkō Era (1313-34), from the series Thirty-Six Elegant Selections

Mizuno Toshikata, 1894

Woodblock print of boatmen on a river under a full moon, with geese flying overhead and reed bundles on the bank.

Landscape with Ferry Boat, Geese and Full Moon

Totoya Hokkei, early 1830s

Woodblock print of four dancers with pink blossom parasols and clappers, wearing green leaf-patterned kimono and striped garm

Binzasara, A Dance with Clappers (From the series Entertainments at the Height of the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure…

Eishosai Choki, early 1790s

Woodblock print of a seated woman in a kimono on a veranda, looking at a flowering shrub under a crescent moon.

The Fourth Month, A Lady of the Enkyō Era (1744-48), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections

Mizuno Toshikata, 1894

Woman in striped kimono and wide hat beside a plum tree, with an inset figure in black and calligraphy, Japanese woodblock pr

Woman by a Plum Tree Matched with the Wisteria Maiden (from a series of women compared to figures from Otsu paintings)

Yanagawa Shigenobu, c. early 1830s

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono reading a handwritten letter, with calligraphy beside her, by Suzuki Harunob

Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding red geta sandals, standing by a blue noren curtain.

Woman Leaving a Bath House (from the series Pictures from Otsu)

Utagawa Kunisada, c. mid 1820s

Woman in blue kimono walks toward a stone staircase past a torii gate and pine tree in a woodblock print landscape.

True View of Benten at Inokashira from the series Gekkō’s Miscellaney

Ogata Gekkō, c. 1886-1899

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped kimono beside a kneeling man, with fireflies and chasers at dusk by a river.

Chasing Fireflies, A Lady of the Tenmei Era (1781-1789), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections

Mizuno Toshikata, 1894

Japanese woodblock print of women on a veranda, one combing hair, with a basket-hatted man below and a snowy inset scene.

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro, late 1790s

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono preparing a bonito fish on a wooden tub, with clouds behind her.

First Bonito of the Year

Utagawa Kunisada, 1844-48

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a pink robe holding a wooden box overhead against a patterned backdrop.

The Actor Ichikawa Raizo as Soga No Goro

Katsukawa Shunshō, mid-1770s

Woodblock print of two women with tall hairstyles and long hairpins in patterned kimono, by Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1800.

The Courtesans Kasugano and Utahama of Tamaya, from Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1800

Woodblock print of a rider on horseback and a walking traveler in snow beneath a pine tree, with birds and falling snowflakes

Chinese Official Pausing on a Bridge to View the Snow (from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Verse)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1834-5

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned robes raising a sword and holding a red pine branch, 1779.

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Gorō

Katsukawa Shunkō, 1779

Triptych print of women fishing with a large net at night on a river, with a boat, platform and lanterns.

Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1800

Woodblock print of a figure in a pink and black kimono holding a sword before a bamboo fence under plum branches.

Iwai Hanshirō IV as a Woman with a Sword

Katsukawa Shun'ei, 1791

Woodblock print of women resting in a temple hall with a pine tree, votive tablets, and a child with a parasol.

Print from Women Resting in the Votive Picture Hall at Asakusa

Chobunsai Eishi, early 1790s

Triptych print of court ladies in kimono seated in a palace interior with crane screens and drummers.

Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)

Kitagawa Utamaro, late 1790s

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a black parasol, with calligraphy at upper right.

Dancer as Kuzunoha, Fox Spirit Disguised as a Woman

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1795

Woodblock print of a woman dancing beside a laughing boy on a veranda under red lanterns, with a pine tree behind them.

Furuichi Dance at the Hisagataya

Gakutei Harunobu -1868), mid 1820s

The Courtesan Takigawa of Ogiya (from the series Seven Aspects of Komachi in the Green Houses)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1797 or 1798

Three women in kimono relax on a covered pleasure boat, one smoking a pipe, above rippling water.

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1796-97

Woodblock print of a yellow rowboat beside a winding blue tidal channel on pale sand, with distant buoys and rocks.

The Derelict, or the Lost Boat

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1916

Woodblock print of a woman with a parasol and a child on her back, wearing a brown kimono and patterned obi.

Prayers for Rain, from the series Seven Elegant Komachi

Kitagawa Utamaro, late 1790s